P106-100 vs Radeon R7 A265

Place in the ranking	897	366
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	10.29
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Opal	GP106
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	9 January 2014 (12 years ago)	19 June 2017 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	1280
Core clock speed	725 MHz	1506 MHz
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	1709 MHz
Number of transistors	950 million	4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	19.80	136.7
Floating-point processing power	0.6336 TFLOPS	4.375 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	48
TMUs	24	80
L1 Cache	96 KB	480 KB
L2 Cache	256 KB	1536 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	no data	250 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	192.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	6.1

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

R7 A265 2.37

P106-100 16.03
+576%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

R7 A265 993
Samples: 5

P106-100 6665
+571%

Samples: 158

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.37	16.03
Recency	9 January 2014	19 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm

P106-100 has a 576% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

The P106-100 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 A265 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 A265 is a notebook graphics card while P106-100 is a workstation one.